Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Could we keep the announcements list for announcements as per its limited scope please? [1] If someone could recommend an on-wiki page or email for Raju Narisetti, this may be useful for those who wish to send personal congratulations or thank you notes. In light of the recent discussion of stric

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Welcome Raju! I could only see you from far during the recent ONA 17 but missed the opportunity to meet and say hi. The Wikimedia community has a lot to gain from your long journalistic experience. Look forward to getting your advice for our communities. Love, Subhashish Odia Wikimedians User Gr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Welcome Raju! *James Alexander* Manager, Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Biyanto Rebin < biyanto.re...@wikimedia.or.id> wrote: > Welcome to Wikimedia movements, Raju! > > Best regards from Indonesia, > > 2017-10-17 1:19 GMT+07:00 Christophe Henner : > > > Hi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Welcome to Wikimedia movements, Raju! Best regards from Indonesia, 2017-10-17 1:19 GMT+07:00 Christophe Henner : > Hi everyone, > > Over the past year, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has been > reviewing and evolving our appointment and onboarding process for new Board > members. Whi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Welcome to the movement, Raju! Your profile seems, with my limited understanding of the current functioning of the board, a valuable complement to the current board. I hope that you feel able and encouraged to also share your wisdom directly with the community. While some of us can be a little mor

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Raju Narisetti joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

This press release is available online here: https://wikimediafoundation. org/wiki/Press_releases/Raju_Narisetti_joins_Wikimedia_ Foundation_Board_of_Trustees And also as a blog post on the Wikimedia blog here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/16/raju-narisetti-new-foundation-trustee/ Raju Nar

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Library User Group is being renamed!

*Hello! In the past few months, the Wikipedia Library User Group[1] has been undergoing some major planning and developments. We just finished our very first open call with the user group members, which was a great success (see the meeting minutes [2]). If you joined us during the meeting, we’d lik

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] July 2017 Board of Trustees meeting minutes

Hi all, The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees have approved and published minutes from their meeting on July 21, 2017: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2017-07-21 Best, Charles M. Roslof Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation cros...@wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 NOTICE: This messag

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Raju welcome! You bring much expertise & wisdom to us! Victoria > On Oct 16, 2017, at 2:48 PM, Katherine Maher wrote: > > Thank you, Christophe, for sharing this wonderful news. > > I have had the opportunity to get to know Raju during this appointments > process, and am very excited that he

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Thank you, Christophe, for sharing this wonderful news. I have had the opportunity to get to know Raju during this appointments process, and am very excited that he is joining our Wikimedia family as a Foundation Trustee. It is clear to me that his values are closely aligned with those of our move

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Thanks Joe (and Matanya) for the speedy replies. I’ve added a comment on the talk page of the report. 😊 Chris Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Joe Sutherland Sent: 16 October 2017 19:25 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Jean-Philippe Béland wrote: > As far as i know, it is the only project that the initiative Women in red > contribute to, which is the initial subject of this thread. > Sidenote: the WikiProject itself does exist on other languages/projects: https://www.wikidata.o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

Hello Todd, This particular grant request is here on meta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Dr._Blofeld/Contest_toolkits_and_prize_funds The talk page has details about the review by the community committee and also an explanation of the funding that was actually give. There is ba

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

Yes it's all on Meta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start. JP On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 3:21 PM Todd Allen wrote: > Are those applications published anywhere? I'd be curious to see it. I'm > not really familiar with the grant process. > > Todd > > On Oct 16, 2017 12:47 PM, "Jean-Philippe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

Are those applications published anywhere? I'd be curious to see it. I'm not really familiar with the grant process. Todd On Oct 16, 2017 12:47 PM, "Jean-Philippe Béland" wrote: > My opinion is that such projects should be supported, we should encourage > 'be bold'. That being said, people plan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Excellent news! Bishakha On 17 Oct 2017 00:11, "Anna Stillwell" wrote: > Welcome, Raju. > /a > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Christophe Henner > > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Over the past year, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has been > > reviewing and evolving our appoi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

My opinion is that such projects should be supported, we should encourage 'be bold'. That being said, people planning projects at a large scale should communicate with the concerned communities first. As such, the concerns raised in this thread for example would have been raised during the planning

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Welcome, Raju. /a On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Christophe Henner wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Over the past year, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has been > reviewing and evolving our appointment and onboarding process for new Board > members. While that has resulted in some lingeri

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

2017-10-16 20:03 GMT+02:00 Lodewijk : > > > While this particular topic seems enwp specific, its theme isn't. Definitely The topic is more generic though: should we support projects that are > considered by some to be a little rough on the edges, or should we only > pick 'safe' projects that w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

As far as i know, it is the only project that the initiative Women in red contribute to, which is the initial subject of this thread. It certainly is the only project where "Many of the competition articles will just get tagged CSD - A1, A7, A9 even G2" makes any sense. I am a sysop on several Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

2017-10-16 18:27 GMT+02:00 Robert Fernandez : > So those who call out sexism are the real sexists, amirite? > I wrote a pretty different thing: those who use label as "sexist" anyone who doesn't *completely* agree with them share a rethorical mean with sexism. > > Some people are allowed to mak

Re: [Wikimedia-l] : [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017 WikimediaFoundation Board of Trustees election

Hi Chris, This is actually a very good point! I will try to find out with the other members of ec where we stand on this. Stay tuned for updates. Thanks and sorry for the delay On 16 באוקטובר 2017 21:14:33 GMT+03:00, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: >Send Wikimedia-l mailing lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

A great question. And I have an easy answer! I wrote up the feedback we received into a report that you can read here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Post_mortem/Report The committee will be working on taking the feedback onboard ahead of the next election cyc

[Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Raju Narisetti to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Hi everyone, Over the past year, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has been reviewing and evolving our appointment and onboarding process for new Board members. While that has resulted in some lingering vacancies, we knew it was important to update these processes to help maintain a cordi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Results of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Hello all and particularly the Elections Committee! I just wondered what is happening in terms of post-mortem on the elections. There was a call for comments on Meta - is there any kind of active review by the Election Committee happening? I know in previous years the EC has often made extensive c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

I understand from the original email that the venue was chosen based on the fact that it was WMF-funded as a project. I am guessing he's trying to pull that leverage. The topic is more generic though: should we support projects that are considered by some to be a little rough on the edges, or shou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

Is the English Wikipedia the only Wikipedia which has problems with misogyny and under-representation of female editors and articles? I am relieved to hear that! On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Jean-Philippe Béland wrote: > There is so many threads on this list that are only about English Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

Why? -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pax Ahimsa Gethen Sent: Monday, 16 October 2017 7:21 PM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red The people whose opinion should most matter in deter

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

+1 > Le 16 oct. 2017 à 19:34, Jean-Philippe Béland a écrit > : > > There is so many threads on this list that are only about English Wikipedia > like it is the centre of the world... Why other communities are able to > keep their internal discussions internal and not this community? > > Jean-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

There is so many threads on this list that are only about English Wikipedia like it is the centre of the world... Why other communities are able to keep their internal discussions internal and not this community? Jean-Philippe Béland Vice President, Wikimedia Canada On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:20 P

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

The people whose opinion should most matter in determining whether a comment is sexist are women. Not men, and not non-binary transmasculine people like myself. I support and echo Emily and Molly's earlier comments on this thread: Also, in case it's not clear from my forwarding of Emily's/Kei

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

Is that still going on? I'm against sexism and all for improving coverage of women on Wikipedia. I've helped to encourage events toward that end, and they've turned out pretty well. We now have quite a few more articles, for example, on women involved as pioneers in outdoor sports and activities b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

So those who call out sexism are the real sexists, amirite? I am fed up with this double standard in the way we talk about these issues. Some people are allowed to make broad, unsupported, sweeping generalizations about the motives and actions of others and that's considered just fine, but if you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

How can someone rebut such absolute and perfect theorems? My weak doubts, hypothesis and views must surely surrend to such a bright parade of Eternal Thruth™. But just a note: using the same behavior of phenomena you're trying to contast is, per se, a clear defeat. To be more clear, blind -because

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

Based on my own experience on en.wn, I believe copyright/plagiary detection cannot be fully automated without introducing horrific errors, for the same reason translation can't be: doing the task properly requires knowing what the text means. On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:47 AM, James Heilman wrote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

Gnangarra admitted to deliberately using a provocative tone to get attention ("I chose my tone intentionally to draw attention to the competition"). Acting surprised that people were aggrieved is disingenuous. On the topic of sexism: the underrepresentation in the Wikimedia community of every demo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Open Foundation West Africa

Congratulations. /a On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Vi to wrote: > Good neews, I hope they can help with saving WP0 from abusers, as Wikimedia > Bangladesh already did. > > Vito > > 2017-10-14 14:37 GMT+02:00 Isaac Olatunde : > > > Good news. Congratulations!! > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Isaac

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emerging Communities: a proposed new definition

Where does the number 750,000 speakers come from? And what is the rationale to exclude smaller linguistic communities? I think emerging communities can have less speakers than that. A language can be viable and alive with less speakers than that, so we are not talking about preserving a language e

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

+1 to your email Yaroslav. I'd just underline Gnangarra's original email wasn't sexist, it's so unfair to vilify criticism towards contests as sexism. Vito 2017-10-16 9:33 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav Blanter : > My (rejected) message below anyway. > [CUT because of boring filter rule] > Cheers > Yarosl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Open Foundation West Africa

Good neews, I hope they can help with saving WP0 from abusers, as Wikimedia Bangladesh already did. Vito 2017-10-14 14:37 GMT+02:00 Isaac Olatunde : > Good news. Congratulations!! > > Regards, > > > Isaac > > On Oct 14, 2017 12:24 PM, "shola ishola" wrote: > > > Congratulations to the team!!! >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

WereSpielCheckers... point taken noting that the minimum figure has shifted from 0.75k to 1k, let leave it at that On 16 October 2017 at 17:30, WereSpielChequers wrote: > Hi Gnangarra > > I've heard bad things about the articles for creation process, but a > minimum of either 1.5 kb or 2,000 by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

My understanding is they target 10K articles, not 100K. Cheers Yaroslav On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:30 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gnangarra > > I've heard bad things about the articles for creation process, but a > minimum of either 1.5 kb or 2,000 bytes of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

Hi Gnangarra I've heard bad things about the articles for creation process, but a minimum of either 1.5 kb or 2,000 bytes of prose is a new one on me. Can you link to that part of the AFC rules? I have reread things such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation

[Wikimedia-l] Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon

Dear Wikimedians, I am happy to announce that Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon has started with great enthusiasm and will continue till 10 November 2017. The Odia Wikipedia community and the CIS

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

My (rejected) message below anyway. Cheers Yaroslav On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > Why is my message to this thread getting rejected? It says "Message > rejected by filter rule match"? > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Yaroslav Blanter > wro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

Why is my message to this thread getting rejected? It says "Message rejected by filter rule match"? Cheers Yaroslav On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > Dear All, > > I guess we are discussing this contest: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_ > i